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100 season's readings
With our guide to the year's best books, filling your shopping list can be as fun as any reindeer game
Published December 6, 2003 at midnight
When it comes to books, it's been a year of unprecedented bounty. More than 100,000 new titles were released in 2003, with narratives that take readers from Boston to Bosnia, from San Francisco to Santiago.
In this holiday season, it can mean only one thing: More books to choose as gifts than ever before - and more difficulty sorting out the tinsel from the trash.
Even Santa's elves might admit defeat in the face of such a challenge.
But there's no need to panic. In today's annual roundup of the best books of the year, we've done the work for you - and winnowed the mountain of books to a manageable size.
Click on the links at right to find 100 fabulous reads, our favorites in fiction, nonfiction and children's books - culled from books reviewed by the News throughout the year - as well as no-miss picks from among the scores of glossy coffee-table books that have been released in recent months.
In all, it's a reader-friendly guide that can take the stress out of your holiday shopping and leave you with time to enjoy the season.
Without further ado, let the games begin.
| • Throughout the year, News critics have pored over debut novels written in 2003 that weren't reviewed on our regular pages. They have selected the cream of the crop, no-miss reads for all sensibilities. While we didn't have the space here to include these, you can click on the link at right to read the reviews. • Dale Langford picks good books for green-thumbers in Home Front. |
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